Sunday, December 14, 2014
Wonkette once again dives into the serpent pit that is the Sarah Palin Channel. (I wonder what anti-venom they use over there?)
VideoWonkette
provided part of a transcript, but I fleshed it out because apparently I am
just that much of a glutton for punishment.Here it is: Hey
friends! Y’know, back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton said that he wanted
abortion to...
Just in case you harbored any doubts that Jeb Bush was running for President.
Courtesy of Politico: Jeb
Bush, the former Florida governor who is considering a run for president,
said in an interview aired this weekend that he’s going to release about
250,000 emails from his time in office. The...
To date there is only one CIA agent who has been jailed over the agency's torture program. And that is the man who blew the whistle on it in the first place.
Courtesy of the Washingtonian:
In 2007, 15-year CIA veteran John Kiriakou told an
ABC News reporter that his agency had waterboarded an Al Qaeda detainee, Abu
Zubaydah, whom Kiriakou was involved in capturing in 2002....
Well it finally happened. Sarah Palin comes out in support of the CIA torture techniques. Kind of surprised it took so long.
Sarah Palin in her "puffed up leather coat."
Courtesy of Sarah "Whip it, whip it good" Palin's Facebook
page:America...
Hundreds of former Obama supporters are now urging Elizabeth Warren to once again deny Hillary Clinton the Democratic nomination.
Courtesy of CNN:
More than 300 former Obama campaign staffers
signed an open letter Friday morning urging Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren to run for president in 2016. The letter draws
parallels between Obama's...
South Dakota ends its "don't Jerk and Drive campaign. Wait, what?
Courtesy of My
Fox Chicago:Officials for the state of South Dakota have
removed a “Don't Jerk and Drive” safety campaign after complaints about the
sexual overtones of the message. The campaign, created
by the state's...
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Apparently Ted Cruz is inadvertently helping the Democrats right now. Update!
Courtesy of TPM: While
Republican senators were fuming at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee
(R-UT) for holding up a $1.1 trillion spending bill aimed at preventing a
government shutdown, Democrats saw a silver lining:...
Tea Partiers hold rally outside of White House. Talk soon turns to lynching.
VideoOn Wednesday a group of Tea Party
enthusiasts gathered outside the White House to protest immigration reform.
And then thinks got just a touch racist.Courtesy of Right
Wing Watch: “Hang the traitor!” “Hang
the lying Kenyan...
As Michele Bachmann leaves Congress she claims to have no plans to run for President but still plans to be a major pain in the ass.
Courtesy of CNN:
Rep. Michele Bachmann says now that she's leaving
Congress, she can "take the handcuffs off." In an
interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday, the eight-year Minnesota
congresswoman said she wants...
Elizabeth Warren takes to the Senate floor to take on Citigroup and condemn the politicians who seemingly work for them. Amazing speech!
VideoCourtesy of MSNBC:
“You know,” Warren said Friday, “there is a lot of
talk lately about how Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect. There is a lot of talk
coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect. So let me say this
to anyone...
Sarah Palin is mad as hell, and well hardly anybody cares anymore.

Courtesy of Politico:
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin
said the House Republicans who passed $1 trillion-plus funding bill late
Thursday “flipped American voters the bird.” “It’s
baffling really,”...
Ken Ham's Ark project springs a leak.
Courtesy of TPM:
Kentucky's proposed "creationist theme park," Ark
Encounter, won't receive tax incentives from the state because of
potentially discriminatory hiring practices, the news website Insider
Louisville...
Friday, December 12, 2014
Bringing everybody up to speed.

I have often in my life felt unsure of myself. Especially when I took on a
new job or task that was outside of my comfort zone or required a skill set
that I was not sure I possessed.I can remember starting jobs and
...
George W. Bush back in the spotlight as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee releases new information that proves that Bush Administration lied in run up to Iraq war, and CIA Director claims that torture techniques were authorized by President Bush personally.
Courtesy of AOL:
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee released new information on Thursday that he claims is evidence
that the Bush administration misled the nation in the run-up to the war in
Iraq....
Former St. Louis police officer: Darren Wilson processed his own evidence after shooting Michael Brown. #Fergusonisnotover.
VideoCourtesy of 3
Chics Politico: Redditt Hudson a former police
officer with St Louis County police says Darren Wilson processed his own
evidence. Reddit also says he was in the room when Ferguson police chief Tom
Jackson told...
Possible reason for concern. Apparently Willow Palin is now armed.

Sarah Palin's ghostwriter helped her compose a rather
meandering post which included a bit about her friend Juanita's first
moose kill, an article her brother wrote about hanging out with the Duck
Dynasty dipshits, and...
Open Carry advocate kills husband and stepdaughter. Then drives herself to a mental hospital.
Veronica Dunnachie supporting Open Carry in Tarrant County
Courtesy of The
Dallas Morning News:An Arlington woman...
NBC reporter asks Rick Perry if he is "smart enough to be President of the United States." Best question ever!
VideoCourtesy of Real
Clear Politics: GOV. RICK PERRY: I think over
the course of the last two years, people, you know, they realize that what
they saw in 2011 is certainly not the person they're looking at in 2013,
2014, 2015....
Anonymous Wikipedia user with IP address that leads to US Senate really does not like the use of the word "torture" to describe what the CIA did to detainees. Keeps trying to change it.
Anonymous Wikipedia user with IP address that leads to US Senate really does not like the use of the word "torture" to describe what the CIA did to detainees. Keeps trying to change it.
Courtesy of Mashable:
An anonymous...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Hopeful 2016 GOP presidential candidate sends explosive thank you message to local Jewish voters.
"Duck Jews!" Sincerely Scott Walker
Courtesy of AOL:
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may want to try
using...
New report claims that Atheists are being targeted around the world for their lack of faith.
Courtesy of the Independent:
Atheists and humanists are increasingly being
targeted as distinct minorities in “hate campaigns” across the globe,
according to a new report which found that religious and political leaders
...
Just a reminder that Nicolle Wallace is still just a Bush Administration apologist.
VideoCourtesy of The
Washington Free Beacon: “I think months after
9/11 there were three people who we thought knew about imminent attacks, and
we did whatever we had to do, and I pray to God that until the end of time
we do whatever...
Sarah Palin once again under the delusion that she speaks for America, and seems to forget that newly elected members of Congress are not yet on the job.

Courtesy of Not the Voice of America's Facebook
page:Grant me this use of America's voice: When you cut
through all the “inside baseball” stuff in this Omnibus Spending Bill that's
in front of Congress, you're left with...
Time Magazine's Person of the Year is certainly going to irritate a certain New Jersey Governor.

Here is brief portion of the article courtesy of Time
Magazine: The death in Dallas of Thomas Eric
Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil, and the infection of
two nurses who treated him, shook our faith...
Just in time for Christmas, the Sarah Palin Quitcoin.

Funny.What is not quite as funny is that this is based on an
actual product printed by the Alaska
Mint.Actually come to think of it that kind of funny as well.Source
...
Unhappy with continued defense of CIA torture techniques Senator Mark Udall discloses findings of classified "smoking gun" report on Senate floor.
Courtesy of The
Nation: The debate in Washington over Bush-era
torture at the Central Intelligence Agency took a large leap forward
Wednesday morning when Senator Mark Udall took the Senate floor and
disclosed portions...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
What everybody is talking about, the Newsroom's college rape storyline.
VideoCourtesy of The
Independent: The Newsroom has been accused of
having a “women problem” before, but now Aaron Sorkin has come under fire
for a rape storyline that implies male perpetrators are to be believed over
female victims....
Right Wing lessons learned these last couple of weeks.
In case image does not expand click here.
Oh well, now it all makes sense.Source
...
The horror that is the CIA torture report.
I have been listening to reporting on this all morning, from essentially
every cable news outlet, and I have to say that I think I am going to have
some trouble sleeping tonight.I knew some of this, but to have it
all...